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We are glad to introduce first practical result of GVETS project partnership – e-book “Introducing gamification in vocational education and training for professionals and social workers in the field of migrant children protection and support. Skills Ecosystem and Methodological Framework”!
This e-book is the result of the background research produced by the partnership, needed in order to collect needs and resources in the field of trainings aimed at professionals working with migrant children. Partners did desk research on migration and child protection legislation, available services, training opportunities (including gamification) for support workers and empirical research by organizing focus group and collecting information from stake holders in this field. EU level research on the same topics was also conducted.
Results of this research and recommendations for the future training modules of GVETS e-training platform are presented in this publication. You can find it in our Resources section, feel free to download it and use it!
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Multiplier event held in Budapest, July 2019

Menedék’s first multiplier event was held for both stakeholders and members of the target group. Participants had an opportunity not only to get to know the project and its outputs, but they could also try some exciting activities from the training platform. Some activities were presented on the online platform, and some were transformed into offline training activities. Participants had a chance to work in pairs and in groups, which also provided stakeholders with innovative strategies on how to utilize the GVETS training in an offline or blended setting. In the afternoon session, participants were asked to share their experiences and ideas on VET, gamification tools and how to best utilize GVETS.

Second Multiplier event held in Budapest, September 2019

On Menedék’s second multiplier event, the participants were more experienced professionals and trainers, thus they were familiar with the content of the Modules, and the discussions focused on the potentials for utilizing the GVETS materials in existing trainings, and its implications to the VET opportunities for helping professionals. The stakeholders regarded the platform as a useful pedagogical tool and are committed to implement it in their trainings.

2019-01-31

We are happy to announce, that GVETS project is included to the 4th Handbook of Good Practices annually delivered by Mediterranean Migration Network – MMN!
The handbook merely includes a small collection of the rich and heterogeneous good practices and materials the members of the Network and their partners have developed at local, national and European level. You can find the handbook here
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Menedék presents GVETS for SUMIGRE partners

Menedék was invited to present the GVETS project and its results at the meeting of another project, SUMIGRE, where the consortium is also working on the development of an online training. The partners were excited to see the online materials and were keen to both try the training and distribute the opportunity in their circles.

GVETS project presented at NIEM coalition meeting

Menedék holds regular meetings with stakeholders and professionals to discuss issues that affect the lives of migrants and especially refugees in Hungary. The GVETS project was shared with participants on our 9th October meeting. We received positive feedback on the gap-filling necessity of the topics covered, and participants were committed to register on the platform and try the training.

On the 14th and 15th of February representatives of all the partners implementing GVETS project have participated in 3rd transnational partners meeting at the Oxfam Italy’s office, in Florence. At the meeting progress of current activities was discussed, pending issues solved, future steps planned.

First training module will be uploaded to the e-learning platform soon, so stay tuned – great things are coming soon!

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2019-03-04

In a week we are starting joint staff training event of the GVETS project in Budapest! Training will take place on 11-15 of March, project coordinator, Menedek will host representatives from all partnership. Training agenda includes online testing of the module “Social work in the digital era”, and testing other modules elements in a face to face training settings. Participants will have an opportunity to be experience both roles – of the trainers, and of the trainees. All the feedback gathered during this training will be used to improve training modules, finalize them, and get the e-learning platform running in full capacity.

GVETS team is looking forwards to visiting beautiful Budapest, learning from each other and working together to prepare the best result possible!

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2019-08-28

Today DDG had a chance to present GVETS project and its result – online training platform to our colleagues VA Caritas Foreigner Integration Program. We have shortly presented the modules, done some practical activities and discussed social workers training policy issues in the context of the project. Professionals working in the field gave positive feedback on our training modules and provided some insights for their improvements.

Prepared by: Diversity Development Group

Date: 19-21/04/2019

Type: Event

Description: During the Fashion Awareness Festival, CSI hosted a booth, at which it provided information on the organization and its projects and at which the CSI team disseminated flyers related to some of its projects, including GVETS

What are the numbers of the foreign presence in Tuscany? And what are the differences in income and access to welfare between people born with citizenship and people with a migration background? This and other questions will be answered by the guests of the «Seminar on migratory phenomena in Tuscany», the moment of study by the Regional Observatory on Immigration to be held in Florence on Wednesday, October 30 (Palazzo Strozzi Sacrati, Piazza Duomo 10).

Description: The Training of Professionals took place in Nicosia, Cyprus, on the 18th and 19th of June 2019. CSI’s project manager had the chance to exchange good practices with other professionals working with migrants, especially women, as well as invite them to the GVETS Multiplier and Final Conference.

Interesting docufilm “Waiting” that it gives voice to children/youths of migrant origin and their families starting from the preparation of the theatrical staging of a fairy tale set in Turin at Porta Palazzo.

“PROFUCE” is the acronym for “Promoting Foster Care for Unaccompanied Children in Europe”The general goal of the project is to build social services’ capacity and awareness to promote a high quality system supporting foster families for unaccompanied minors, UAM’s.

Specific objectives are:

– Increasing the number of foster parents to respond to UAM’s specific and varied needs;

-Increasing the competences of foster parents, educators and social workers to respond to UAM’s specific and varied needs;

-Integrating and establishing the ALFACA methodology in social services’ foster care work with families, local services, and national authorities and at transnational level;

– Increasing the number of UAMs placed in foster families in the countries partners of the project.

Description: The Launch Conference of the project DARE (Day-One Alliance for Employment) took place in Nicosia, Cyprus, on the 24th of June 2019. CSI’s project manager had the chance to exchange good practices with other professionals working with migrants, as well as invite them to the GVETS Multiplier and Final Conference.

Target group: Experts in the training/ counselling field

IOM, UNHCR and UNICEF publish the report “At a crossroads Unaccompanied and separated children in their transition to adulthood in Italy”

Between 2014 and 2018, more than 70,000 unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) arrived in Italy by sea, 90 per cent of whom were between 15 and 17 years old. The significant presence of UASC (7,272 in June 2019) and the growing number of UASC who have turned 18 (around 60,000 over the last five years) have highlighted the need to better understand the measures and opportunities for the protection and social inclusion of this specific population group in their transition to adulthood.This research, commissioned by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), provides an overview of trends and possible pathways of transition to adult life of UASC in Italy. The main objective of the research, which has focused on the three regions hosting the highest number of UASC (Sicily, Lombardy and Latium), is to provide evidence on the factors that are facilitating or constraining this transition, both at the individual and structural level.

Description: The Multiplier event of the project GVETS took place in ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation on 23/09/2019! With the support of Hope For Children CRC Policy Center, CSI presented the project’s aims, deliverables, and results, and demonstrated the online learning platform! The participants had the chance to participate in an interactional activity/ quiz and enrich their knowledge about VET education and migration!

Description: Up to Youth festival is an annual gathering of organizations and the general public as to get to know new initiatives, projects and the work of organizations, universities and other institutions. CSI’s projects were disseminated, including GVETS.

Description: During the final conference, more than 40 people were informed about the project’s aim, objectives, overall course, Intellectual Outputs, deliverables and results. Apart from that, they had the chance to see the project’s website and online learning platform, participate in interactional activities and make suggestions and comments.

In Italy, the statistical Dossier on Immigration was presented on 24 October 2019.

The number of foreign citizens residing in Italy in 2018 amount to 5.255.503 (Idos, 2019), just a few hundred more than the year before. It is worth recalling that, according to the consular registers, the Italians residing abroad are already over 5.365.000. Concerning their nationalities, they are less than 200, 30,5% of which is made of EU citizens, while 1.1 million come from other European countries. The top 5 communities of foreign origin in our country are Romanians (1.206.938), Albanians (441.027), Moroccans (422.980), Chinese (299.823) and Ukrainians (239.424).

The amount of people entering Italy due to economic or familiar issues has plummeted over the last few years, as we are currently witnessing migrations of people fleeing wars or political and religious persecutions through the Mediterranean route.